Claudia Hobartner

Claudia Höbartner studied chemistry in Vienna and Zürich, and earned a PhD degree from the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck (Austria) in 2004. After postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which was supported by an Erwin Schrödinger fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), she returned to the University of Innsbruck, funded by the Hertha Firnberg career development program of the FWF. In 2008 she joined the Max Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen as an independent research group leader. In 2014 she was appointed professor at the faculty of chemistry at Georg August University Göttingen. Since July 2017 she holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry I at the Julius Maximilians University Würzburg. Her major research interests include the biomolecular chemistry of natural nucleic acid modifications and of synthetic functional nucleic acids, with a particular focus on ribozymes and catalytic DNA (deoxyribozymes). She won an ERC consolidator grant and was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.